cormorant

cormorant englannista suomeksi

1. merimetso

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1. merimetso

cormorant englanniksi

1. Any of various medium-large black seabirds of the family (taxfmt) which dive into water for fish and other aquatic animals, found throughout the world except for islands in the centre of the Ocean; specifically, the cormorant ((taxfmt)).

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2. (RQ:Wood New Englands Prospect)

3. (RQ:Milton Paradise Lost)&93; flew, and on the Tree of Life, / The middle Tree and higheſt there that grew, / Sat like a Cormorant; (..)

4. (RQ:Thomson Winter)

5. (RQ:Darwin et al Voyages) I do not know of any other instance where dame Nature appears so wilfully cruel.

6. (RQ:Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre) One gleam of light lifted into relief a half-submerged mast, on which sat a cormorant, dark and large, with wings flecked with foam; (..)

7. (RQ:Stoker Dracula)

8. (quote-book)|series=A Borzoi Book|location=New York, N.Y.|publisher=A. Knopf|Alfred Abraham Knopf|year=1987|page=139|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/sportofnatureno000gord/page/139/mode/1up|isbn=978-0-394-54802-9|passage=A man was swimming out towards them, his flailing arms black and defined in the heat-hazy radiance as the wings of a cormorant that skimmed the water.

9. A voracious eater; also, a person who, or thing which, is aggressively greedy for wealth, etc.

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10. (RQ:Elyot Governour), Fabius Maximus Gurges (consul 292 BC)|Fabius Gurges, Gavius Apicius|Apicius, and dyuers other, to whiche carmorantes, neither lande, water, ne ayre, mought be sufficient.

11. (RQ:Shakespeare Richard 2 Q1)

12. (RQ:Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost Q1)

13. (RQ:Shakespeare Coriolanus)

14. (quote-book)|title=The Life and Death of Mahomet, the Conquest of Spaine, together with the Rysing and Ruine of the Sarazen Empire|location=London|publisher=(...) Ralph Hodgkinson for Daniel Frere,(nb...)|year=1637|page=145|pageurl=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo/A10368.0001.001/158:5?vid=16030|oclc=504366114|passage=Surfetters, and Cormorants he compared to beasts voyd of reason.|footer=(small)

15. (RQ:Congreve Old Batchelour)

16. (RQ:Arbuthnot Law)

17. (RQ:Homer Pope et al Odyssey)

18. (RQ:Landon Lady Anne Granard)

19. Voracious; aggressively greedy.

20. {{quote-book|en|year=1830|title=Boston Masonic Mirror|page=398

21. {{quote-book|en|year=1842|title=Weekly Globe|page=261